Re: actual on topic question (warning does not involve beer or boobies)

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On 18 Jan 2008 I stormed the castle called alt.2600 and heard Rev
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In win XP how do you force an external drive to use a
specific drive letter? My boss has a lacie 100GB external
drive (the kind that is powered solely by the usb port) for
his IBM thinkpad. He has some outlook mail folders on it and
when he plugs it in to the computer, it seems the drive is
randomly assigned a drive letter rather than using the same
one every time. This causes outlook to have a *** fit
because it is expecting the folders to be on drive E: (for
example) but instead the drive was assigned drive D: Any
ideas?
#1
Right click My Computer -> Manage. select Storage -> Drive
Management. Right click the appropriate removable drive ->
Change drive letter and path. finally choose the drive letter
to use. It *should* remember it next time.

or #2

Mount it as a folder in a partition on your hard disk. You
could also use your little USB drive to share files across a
network.

Here is how you could set it all up:
1. Plug the USB drive into your computer.
2. Click on the Start menu, then right-click on My Computer
and select Manage.
3. When the Computer Management window opens, expand the
entry labeled Storage and choose Disk Management.
4. Find the entry for your USB drive, right-click it, and
select Change drive letters and paths.
5. Now click on the Add button, and select Mount in the
following empty NTFS folder. You will now browse to the
directory to which you want to mount the drive. If you
haven't created a directory, you may do so now.
6. When done, you can now remove the drive letter which is
automatically assigned to the drive and click OK. Your USB
drive now has a permanent home inside your hard drive (C:).

The really nice thing about this tip is that if you ever
unplug your USB keychain drive, the folder will still appear
inside your hard drive directory, but you will not be able to
open it.

HTH
Box

Thank you very much for the great answer. Now I just have to
wait for my boss to come in to see if it works. Now at the
risk of asking too many questions, any tips on using an
external drive (not a network drive) with Outlook? I gave up
on outlook many moons ago but some people are quite invested
in it and won't change. I spent about 4 hours researching last
night trying to find a solution to his issues, but only have
partial solutions which I know he won't be happy with. What he
wants to do is store *some* of his folders offline on the
external drive and his main folders on his computer. So
occasionally (maybe once a day) he wants to connect that drive
and put copies of his mail on the external. Somehow, outlook
has a fit and starts rebuilding the database or what have you
and it takes forever. I don't have the exact outlook version
but it is likely about 2-3 years old.
i think you can run outlook on one of those Sandisk U3 memory
sticks.
That's not what he wants to do. I suggested something like that,
but what he wants to do is transport his email between computers
on a fairly frequent basis, and a usb stick is not big enough to
hold all his email.
WOW thats allotta mail... you can get an 8 gig sandisk u3 for
like 50 bucks if you look hard. as for putting his mail on a
removeable drive i dont know. maybe someone has hacked the u3
code by now and he could install that on a partition on a
external drive. -Wes-

It's fairly simple for him to have his standard outlook folders as
autoconfigured by Outlook, then a seperate .pst file on the USB
drive. He can open / close / transfer files to and from that file
from within outlook as needed.

Do you mean that they can exist solely on the external drive?
That's what he is trying to do, but was having problems. I think, I
may have solved the problem just by modifying his behavior. The
thing that I don't get, is that he is a really smart guy and
certainly not a newb as far as computers are concerned. He said to
me "it doesn't seem to make a difference whether I eject the disk
or not" I had to hold my tongue because it's a new job with a new
boss and only my second day of work :-) I just smiled and said I'd
look into his problem.


If he's keeping those emails seperate from what he has on the
Exchange server, then yes he can keep the .pst file on a seperate
drive. He just needs to remember to File -> Open and then
right-click -> Close the file to use it.

Tip two...
Always plug that USB drive back into THE SAME USB PORT on the
computer. If you don't it's not going to recognize it as the same
device and will probably assign a new drive letter regardless.

I already went through that a few posts back: how to force the drive
to always have the same drive letter. As well, his computer had issues
outside of the software realm. The IBM tech came in and replaced the
motherboard and he hasn't had the problem since.


we can fix that.. what's his IP and password? :)

In a related story, always run a key-logger on your own machine...then
if your friends ever need to use your computer to check their hotmail
accounts or whatever...he, he, he...also works especially good for the
dumb*** cable modem installation guy who will log onto the Charter
site with his username and pass to setup your account. You can just
go back in right after he leaves and change anything around as you
please. ^_^

Even better get yourself a few of these to setup on your bosses
computer, or the college computer lab, even local businesses:
http://www.keyghost.com/USB-Keylogger.htm

....nifty!

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